Anyone her with a 26 mth old child that weighs LESS than 22 pounds?

[Gorionine]

That is less than 10kg .

Dd very active, very peaky eater does hardly put any wheight on. I just checked on the red book, and she is not even in the red zone anymore, there is no more zone for her wheight/age. I was always a little bit worried but now I am panicking a bit. Anyone having same type of child?

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Yes, mine is a titch. She's around 10kg and nearly 2 and a half. I think she's fine. I am skinny and so is her dad so it's only to be expected. My mum tells me I weighed around the same at this age. Are you and your partner thin or were you thin as children?

Yes, almost certainly as my DD1 was 9.6 kilos when she was 2 and I don't think she put on that much in the next two months

Is her height in proportion?

not now, but my 2 yo ds was only 20 lbs for flipping ages...

now he is 3 and a half and has really caught up. Try not to fret....

Yup my cousin's child is 2 and half and about that weight, perfectly healthy. Don't forget all children are different, some things are sent to panic us.

I haven't weighed her - but my almost 3yo is still wearing 12-18m clothes so I expect so....although she is deceptively heavy (so not quite the same) she is physically small for her age.

I am not worried myself as she is very active and very happy in herself. I am worried that the health visitor is going to think there is something wrong with her. I will try to measure her today . To me she seems proportionned, petite but not a "walking bone".

Sorry pitchounette,I forgot to answer you post. DD has always been petite, but when she was not on solids yet I did not worry that much because I thought she would put weight on when eating solids. The thing is she lives on fruits which are healthy but very unlikely to put any fat oh her.

Gorionine - My dd2 was like this. At age 2 years she weighed 9.7kg and was 84cm long-just under average height, but under the charts for weight. In fact even though she was born on the 50th percentile for weight, by the age of about 4 months she was no longer on the charts for weight. She's active and lively, just has a small appetite. She's now three and is very slim still but definitely not underweight.

Both mine were around that weight. DD1 is now five and weighs 14kg, DD2 is 2.5 and weighs just over 11kg.

They are both small and slim. DD1 eats like a horse and DD2 like a bird yet they have very similar body shapes.

Try not to worry on the basis of other people's comments unless you have reason think that something is up. I never look at those weight chart things anymore because they just don't seem relevant to my kids and just set me up for worry.

Also DD2 put some weight on and became a bit more solid just recently. Up until a few months ago she was tiny and very light. I don't weigh her much but I can really feel the difference when I carry her.

yes, my dd2 weighs less than 10kg, and is 2

She hasn't always been this small, but slowly dropped and dropped on the charts untils he fell off the bottom of them at about 9 months old. She hasn't really ever made it back onto the charts (occasionally just creeps over the border, but then slides back again)

She is fit, healthy as far as we can tll, eats like a horse, but the weight does not go on.

she is quite short too, although is on the charts for height.

If you are worried at all, do talk to your gp/hv but be prepared to get into a cycle of appointments which might not give you any answers, and at times can be very frustrating - like when a dietician tells me to get more calories into her, but when I filled out the chart for what is eaten and when (usually 3 days worth), I ran out of room to write down what is being eaten. The dietician was at the amount (and all decent, homecooked stuff, so no wasted calories) but could not sugggest anyhting to help...

dd2 has been under a paed now for nearly 18 months, with various investigations, and nothing has come back as concrete (there is family history of gut problems, and that is why we are investigating - generally speaking, a child who is eating as much as dd2 does should be putting on weight).

Beachcomber, I do not go and weigh her often, actually I cannot remember when I last weighed her at the baby clinic. I just do it at home every now and again. I think this is why I am worried, not because she is petite, as I said she is active and generally happy in herself, but I was just worried I would get "told off" by HV if I went at the clinic again .

Silverfrog, I am not aware of any family history of gut problems. My sister is slimmer and shorter than me and two of DH sisters are quite petite themselves, maybe DD4 inherited their genes?

Thank you all very much as it did reassure me to hear all your experiences.